“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.”

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say ‘I’m human’ at the end of the day.”

I am always forgiving too easily as if I have forgotten the way it hurts.

Its easier to say love doesn’t come to you rather than explaining why you push it away.

I used to think my heart was made of glass the way it was so easy for you to shatter it.

Sometimes life is easier when you intentionally choose not to understand the meaning behind, when you try to look away from what’s apparent to the eyes of the mind.

Good habits take effort to develop, but once you have them, everything is easy.